Emoji to Scale

Projects like this remind me why I love the web. So cute! This is an open source project, so everyone commenting with suggestions can just open up a PR:…

never knew i needed this until i tried

that was fun :)

That was super fun. Best use of unconventional scrolling I've ever seen, I think.

I love the idea, but the algorithm for scaling seems a bit off. For example, it shows the human as much larger than the car.

Funny idea, but lot of these seem off. - A chicken egg is taller than 5cm. - I would say a tulip is bigger than a phone. - The okay hand sign says it's 21 cm.My hands are larger…

Goat: 45cm Duck: 50cm Might as well say “shuffled emojis with random data attached”

Cool idea, but since one one dimension (height?) was considered, you get some weird things like a cactus (12m) being way bigger than a house (7m).

It's really laggy by the time you get to Tokyo Tower. My computer is hot.

Neat concept. As someone not very up-to-date in Web UI techniques, I was curious as to how the array was being advanced on scroll. Unfortunately, it looks like the answer is…

it barely works for me on mobile. very jittery

The other day I was running a web version of Townscapes on my smartphone, and it worked beautifully and smooth. But this one is so laggy and slow that I barely could scroll to…

Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to…

Also, the "running man" being bigger than a cow and about the same size as a horse... But what really bugs me is that it simply uses some font it finds on your system, so on my…

Unfortunately the side effect is that some emojis, live the gorilla, are only a head in my font. Still, it's cute, despite the weird scales (your mouth is 12cm??)

I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling "duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm) "goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58…

Even more confusingly, it's not consistent about the measured dimension. The car is 1.8m (wide), the firetruck is 2.3m (wide), the tractor is 5m (long), the bus is 12m (long),…

Everything is by height. V2 should try everything by mass.

why couldn't this be done with SVG?

Some of these don't show up for me (like Saturn). This might work better with a web-font? Although then you'd lose the harmonious platform emojis. I wonder if there's a way to…

The fact we still are using bitmap icons seems really weird to me by the way. We should have switched to SVG as soon as screen resolutions and DPIs (e.g. on handheld devices)…

I think they're actually all by height, and if you google them the OP actually matches up. e.g. googling "duck height": 20 – 30 in (51 – 76 cm) "goat height": 16 – 23 in (40 – 58…

Everything is by height. V2 should try everything by mass.

Projects like this remind me why I love the web. So cute! This is an open source project, so everyone commenting with suggestions can just open up a PR:…

Great idea! Why vertical scrolling though?

So the emojis go left to right, but you have to scroll frop top to bottom, strange decision.

Is it rendering the Emojis using the local emoji set so for example if I'm on an Android phone I will see the Android emojis and if I'm on an iPhone I will see the iPhone emojis?

Yes! Author here, the emojis text with css transforms.

Reminds me of an old favorite https://joshworth.com/dev/pixelspace/pixelspace_solarsystem.html

That, and OP, reminded me of the Eames "Powers of 10" film https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fKBhvDjuy0